Olive Mount cutting
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Olive Mount cutting, which was opened in 1830, is a 2-mile sandstone railway cutting on the line to Manchester, 4 miles from Liverpool. The cutting is 80 feet deep and is situated between Wavertree Te
The view towards Wavertree Technology Park railway station, with the junction to Olive Mount chord in the foreground.
The excavation of Olive Mount, four miles from Liverpool.
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway was the first inter-city railway in the world. It opened on 15 September 1830 between the Lancashire towns of Liverpool and Manchester in England. It was also the
Olive Mount cutting
…Park and Broad Green railway stations. The railway's engineer, George Stephenson, had hoped to avoid the problem of creating the cutting for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway by routing the line further north. However, that plan was objected to by the Earl of Derby and the Earl of Sefton. The cutting was originally designed…
A lithograph of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway crossing the Bridgewater Canal at Patricroft, by A. B. Clayton.
Illustration of the Rocket hauling a passenger train on the L&MR in 1830
A replica L&MR coach and the Rocket at the Rocket 150 event in 1980
Stephenson's viaduct crosses the Sankey Brook, and the remains of the Sankey Canal. The viaduct is in use to this day.